Brief Reviews of Movies I Haven't Seen, Summer 2010

The French film Le dîner de cons, adapted for American audiences (all the intelligence, subtlety, and wit was removed). Starring the painfully unfunny Steve Carell, widely considered one of the leading comedic actors of our time.

Lottery Ticket

On the eve of a holiday weekend a young negro (played rapper Bow Wow) learns he has a winning $370 million lottery ticket. For the next three days his neighbors and relatives in ‘da hood’ try to steal it from him while the audience yells things at the screen.

Lottery Ticket 2

Set six months after Lottery Ticket, a young negro (played by rapper Bow Wow) declares bankruptcy after having squanderd $370 million. The audience yells things at the screen, eventually his corpse is found in a dumpster.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

A hipster who looks like a homosexual fetus (Michael Cera) attempts to win the heart of a girl. Based on a comic book read by hipsters who look like homosexual fetuses.

Comments

"The French film Le dîner de cons, adapted for American audiences (all the intelligence, subtlety, and wit was removed). Starring the painfully unfunny Steve Carell, widely considered one of the leading comedic actors of our time. "

Someone please explain why French comedies are so much better than American? Why are their romantic comedies things a man might actually sit through and enjoy?

They've managed to hang on to the ability, and a more sophisticated target audience.

I've noticed in French movies a twenty-something store clerk will be depicted with bookshelves in her apartment. In American movies the only characters shown owning books are professors or criminal masterminds.

I'm trying to think of a pre-1980s era actor whose presence in a movie automatically disqualified it for me. Difficult to name anyone.Yet post-1980s era there are so, so many (but none of them are French)

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